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At this time of year, I always spend a while reviewing the year that has passed.  Last year, I lingered over discussions that reviewed retail banking, capital markets and payments. To be honest, I don’t need to do that this year as the year has been over-shadowed by one thing: SURVIVAL Can the bank make it…

With 2009 starting on a bit of a downbeat note, after the crisis of 2008, the Financial Services Club thought: what should we do to cheer everyone up? You guessed it, we decided to throw a party. But what's the point of starting the New Year with a party if you're not celebrating anything, so…

With 2009 starting on a bit of a downbeat note, after the crisis of 2008, the Financial Services Club thought: what should we do to cheer everyone up? You guessed it, we decided to throw a party. But what's the point of starting the New Year with a party if you're not celebrating anything, so…

With 2009 starting on a bit of a downbeat note, after the crisis of 2008, the Financial Services Club thought: what should we do to cheer everyone up? You guessed it, we decided to throw a party. But what's the point of starting the New Year with a party if you're not celebrating anything, so…

Yesterday was one of my ‘futurism’ days, where I spend time with bankers envisioning what the future of banking might look like. We talked about all sorts of stuff, including chips inside people for payments and video banking … some of my favourite themes. Then I got onto talking about avatars for a while. I…

Yesterday was one of my ‘futurism’ days, where I spend time with bankers envisioning what the future of banking might look like. We talked about all sorts of stuff, including chips inside people for payments and video banking … some of my favourite themes. Then I got onto talking about avatars for a while. I…

Yesterday was one of my ‘futurism’ days, where I spend time with bankers envisioning what the future of banking might look like. We talked about all sorts of stuff, including chips inside people for payments and video banking … some of my favourite themes. Then I got onto talking about avatars for a while. I…

In the final part of discussions of social networks, media, banking and money, I thought I would turn attention to the use of mobile devices as access media to these networks. Mobile usage in banking has grown to a crescendo in the past year, after bubbling away nicely since the turn of this century. This…

In the final part of discussions of social networks, media, banking and money, I thought I would turn attention to the use of mobile devices as access media to these networks. Mobile usage in banking has grown to a crescendo in the past year, after bubbling away nicely since the turn of this century. This…

FredericBaud commented on my blog about Social Money yesterday, that we should have a competition to see who could write the best comment in social networks in the spirit of Yogi Berra. For those unfamiliar with the great Yogi, he was not the one who had a sidekick called Boo Boo.   He was rather better…